Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-07-08
IN JAPAN.
EsTERY FOUNDED IN THE
EIGHTH CENTURY.

EIGHTH CENTURY.
a Priest at His Own Home in the |
ioto- False Ideas About the Age
ngs-A Ride to Lake Biwa-A Bell |
History.
d letter from Kioto to The
bto Record Un,on the follow
fments are taken:
fst evening in Kioto showed
fetty a picture as l have yet
was dark. and had gone to
y of Japanese, whom | knew.
kuruma man. installing the
look me to a place near by. |
the vestibule. and the shoji
thed aside, / saw number of
men and women seated about
|fe- box box with books in their
hitting with them and reading
st dressed in the simple black
kys worn when not officiating.
forward and spoke in French
HI then in English. He knew
who had gone to Toxic; so l
little with him. Here is mis-
9Th no mark about it to dis
it from the surrounding
lave his name on the gate, he
i twice, has his classes, and
ietly and surely, living as the
nd among them, not holding
nloof, not condescending but
lth. He does not complain of
Ms, but makes his love for his
import him. This picture,
no soon after the European life
Den in Kobe among his rival
~ in the same field taught me
laa which l wish others could
~I2a fact that missionaries have
1&re in Japan for more than
+ lthout eating Japanese meal,
oE having slept but once under
T Anese futons, and, living most
Ihme in large school, had not
terest enough in the life about
m know how the pupils bath was
These are little things, but
41ake a sum total OF a great deal.
"a man says, as one did. that
en- be Christian so long as they
|fhe floor; when these supposed
kefs of the Great Teacher go up
HI missions with servants and
TIN OF luggage, and then preach
opel of Him who had not where
MI His head, when their own
IRE comforts hold 50 prominent
3h all proceedings, what possible
y Is there for them to hold their
!dsagainst the man who works in
Az OF this good father whom l
!his EVENING" They tell me that
ing well and with all these home
les they show the people what a
tan home S like.
TO is Il city of palaces, and has a
erof u million inhabitants, but it
past OF Kioto, which overlighting
resent. gives the traveller food for
nj So wofully tired have l be-
d these palaces and temples
lwould willingly give up all the
don OF this ancient capital for q
0f green fields, only | feel it to be
yto visit them now that | am so
Mn first wonder at the enormous
( Japanese buildings is gradually
3rating, and with good reason.
nstanoe, | am told that this royal
ewas built over a thousand years
and after have sufficiently mar
lam informed that it was burned
g groNnd a few years after, but
this date leaves it q relic of
witty, and | marvel again, only to
ID OF another total destruction,
q on through ten or more until
ctuai date of the palace is brought
/ 70 1855. Perhaps you are shown
stone and told with
mt pride that it is over Il thousand
OLD. Of course it is, and would
en- If it had been left where nature
d il, and | wish it had been.
9 enclosed grounds of the palace
lin twenty-siX acres, nearly all
ed, by buildings full of the riches
oldest of art. | was pointed to a
" tree planted by Mmmio in $40,
this thousand-year-old fruit tree,
,ms, has been renewed, and the
mt tree "plauted by Nimmio'' was
n the ground thirty-one years ago.
|s system is perfectly legitimate, l
10 reason why the Golden Gate
should not have Adam S
} tree from the Garden OF
! or that of the father of his coun-
Q other night, as l sat in the dim
q Q lantern waiting for bed and
lime TO come, solemn figure en-
my room, and, kneeling before
struck its forehead three times to
ioor. repeating at each obeisance
name Washington! Washington
was, indeed, taken by
RISE. but [ recovered in time to re-
q the same stately manner: NO
ga! n obunaga! Nobunaga!" much
EVIDENT satisfaction of the figure,
b. after surveying me for some
!, took leave, after again repeating
name. l was at first inclined to
this apparition of political